flautist

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Recent Examples of flautist Performing with the flautist and Outkast member at the concerts are: Carlos Niño, Nate Mercereau, Surya Botofasina, and Deantoni Parks. Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 25 June 2024 Composer Huang Ruo and composer, saxophonist, and flautist Anna Webber are among 10 2024 recipients of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 May 2024 Composer Laura Karpman, whose credits include music for The Marvels and Lovecraft Country, developed a loose and occasionally tense jazz score for the motion picture in collaboration with pianist Patrice Rushen and flautist Elena Pinderhughes. Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 15 Dec. 2023 The song is constructed from an array of clips, including old Usher performance footage, a gospel choir, a marching band, fan home videos, a busking flautist, a small string section, and a group beatboxing at a diner table. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for flautist
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Noun
  • Many of those songs and others are in the musical (a booklet in the Playbill introduces each one, with illustrations by the flutist Hery Paz), along with most of those musicians and singers.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ayers began to gain widespread recognition for his collaboration with flutist Herbie Mann.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Staten is good at getting in his own way, though, so Quinn ‒ a part-time bar owner, part-time lavender farmer and part-time concert pianist, because why not? ‒ is pushed into the arms of Davis (Eoin Macken), Staten's brother-in-law.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The stars include Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), the owner of Double K Ranch who is struggling after the death of his wife and son, and Quinn O’Grady (Minka Kelly), a former concert pianist who returns to her hometown to run Gracie’s, the local dance hall and bar.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Brady was a percussionist in the KC Jazz Quintet and became a member of the Elder Statesmen of Kansas City Jazz, an esteemed group of performers recognized for their impact on the local scene, going on to serve on the advisory committee of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The percussionist has expressed his desire that, before teaching congas or timbas, musicians in Puerto Rico learn to play the pandero and the barril, national instruments that do not receive the same recognition as the cuatro, Puerto Rico’s national guitar.
    Camille Padilla Dalmau of 9 Millones, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents the European ensemble and trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo in a concert featuring works by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Haydn and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 8 p.m. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Besides Barron, this terrific group also includes bassist Christian McBride, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, drummer Johnathan Blake and trumpeter Mike Rodriguez.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The console, where the organist sits at the keyboards, is typically all the audience can see.
    Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • His father was a church organist who taught in Lutheran elementary schools, and Marty attended a Lutheran prep school.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The asterisk in that is that the group did do a short tour in 2021-22 — but with the famous Blondie drummer Clem Burke sitting in for Schock, who had to sit out gigs due to thumb surgery.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This song, there’s no drummer—the alienation of it always was fascinating.
    Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2025

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